Bad never looked so good. JJ and Randy bring the 0700 Superior back to Stinson.

The POVA is an amazingly scenic railroad... from a boat. While the railroad skirts the beautiful Pend Oreille River for a large portion of its trip, most of it cannot be viewed or appreciated from... (more)

Fresh swoosh leads the Brainerd out of Superior on the last day in February.

One of the better Missabe consists this year and maybe the last time the #674 was photographed in Missabe country. The next day she was shipped south for who knows what.

After shooting the shiny GEVO on the E-Rail, I was rewarded with interestingly numbered clean units #2853 and #2835

The birds fly again! After a more than year long hiatus, trains are once again loading raw ore at the Thunderbird Mine and bringing it to the United Taconite plant. CN #2131 is pretty clean and lo... (more)

With the preferred route undergoing heavy upgrades, the Night Gas takes the long way to Pipeline via the 4th Sub, seen here blasting through a rock cut just east of Frenchtown.

After a long day of spotting bad orders at Minorca, this limestone train makes a run for Proctor with a dirty British Columbia On Line leading.

Local with a rare flare grinding up the east slope of Bozeman Pass..

While Jefferson Canyon is absolute solace in the morning, an 0730 departure means most days except maybe early to mid June will have you sweating out the light in the canyon. A train leaving White... (more)

Brainerd Local leaves Superior for Brainerd seen here rolling through Boylston.

Blasting out of the shade, this ex CNW units sparkles in her new CN dress.

One of my favorite things about the Twin Ports, the SOO Power. Here we see CP's finest with a transfer for Superior. They followed two SOO Geeps and were followed by a CP Track Gang with about 10 ... (more)

After a snowstorm covered eastern Montana, the endless parade of westbounds over the MRL continued with this coal train charging west along the Yellowstone River.

Largest grain elevators in the world compared to a small EMD locomotive...